A strong delegation from the former British Northern Cameroons (former Gongola State and even more remote Sardauna province of Nigeria) led by its President-General, Dr Amos Gabuir D.B.M, has ended a three-week visit with traditional, liberation and grassroots development associations of the Southern Cameroons. Operating under the Sardauna Community Development Association, SCDA (a body approved by the Nigerian government in 2002), the group visited Dumbu, Misaje, Nkambe, Bamenda and other parts of the Southern Cameroons. The SCDA delegation attended a UN sponsored workshop on the plight of the former Southern and Northern Cameroons in Bamenda October 24, 2005 after which the SCDA addressed a presentation letter and a videotape of its activities to Southern Cameroonians and the United Nations Organisation.
SCDA representative and President General, Dr Amos Gabuir, congratulated all elders and liberation movements fighting for the restoration of the independence and sovereignty of the former British Southern Cameroons “not forgetting the late Dr John Ngu Foncha who reported the case of this country to the World Court in Geneva in 1988.”
“We say thanks you to those elders who did not stop to follow the matter to a successful end today.” Dr Gabuir said. “We wish you should think about us that are staying in a geographical area called Nigeria which is part of the country. We know and I know that Bama, Mobi, Ganye, Jada, Mayo-Belwa, Garbabi, Gashaka, Takum, Bissaula, Gembu, Baissa, Dorofi, Mayo-Ndaga, to mention a few, is part and parcel of this country. As God the Almighty granted independence to this country, we need the flag today.”
The Jukun peoples of Gida-jukun and Ndaka in the Ako County, Nkambe Local Government Area, are an outcrop of the peoples of the former Sardauna province of Nigeria. The former Sardauna province is today known as the Taraba State. For years the inhabitants of these parts have complained about acute marginalisation by the Nigerian government, which government today realizes that the former Sardauna province ought to be returned to the United Nations Trust as part of attempts to resolve the potentially dangerous border and independence disputes between Southern Cameroons, La Republique du Cameroun and the Federal republic of Nigeria.
Ongoing work by the UN Secretariat to implement the UN Charter; the work of the Nigeria Cameroon Mixed Commissions; the implication of Communication 266/2003 on the violation of the self-determination rights of Southern Cameroonians by the expansionist La Republique du Cameroun as tabled at the 34th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia; the work of Professor Martin Chia; the letter and the spirit of the terms of reference of the Coalition of Southern Cameroons Liberation Movements are all aimed at seeking a direct UN involvement in the resolution of the former Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons palaver.
The SCDA officials found time to liaise with some development associations in the Southern Cameroons and vital networks were created.
The Sardauna Community Development Association is a development body registered in Nigeria for the purpose of opening and constructing rural roads in the former British Northern Nigeria. SCDA also aims to open clinics, primary schools in this forgotten area. SCDA has completed feasibility studies on several roads in the area and is presently sourcing for funding.
Ambazonia, SCARM, the SCYL, well-meaning units of the SCNC and SCAPO are encouraged to network with the Sardauna Community Development Association and other grassroots organizations in the former British Northern Cameroons.
Contact SDCA: Sardauna Community Development Association
Head Office: Number 79, Baju Road
Behind Power House, Gembu. Taraba State. Nigeria
Grand Patron: His Royal Highness, Alhaji Muhammadu Mansur
President General Dr Amos Gabur
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THE COALITION OF LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN THE SOUTHERN
CAMEROONS AMBAZONIA / SCARM / SCNC / SCYL / SCAPO.
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